The first was an exercise that consisted in manipulationg typography to express an idea. The resulting typogram explored the relationship between form and meaning, in this case the idea of “organization.”

Using Adobe Illustrator, the size of each letter was carefully manipulated to fit within each other and occupy the maximum amount of space in an “orderly” manner. The use of typography allows for a number of variations that can become a language itself. Fonts can vary in style (i.e., serif, sans serif, slab serif, etc.), weight (i.e., bold, regular, light, etc.), posture (i.g., roman, italic), case (i.e., upper, small caps) and width (i.e., condensed, etc.).

Combinations of these can convey meaning. This second piece explores the relationship between image and iconography and works to support each other.

The task was to create a poster announcing an upcoming exposition at the Seattle Museum of Flight. Preselected images and text were used to convey the idea of space exploration while providing the required information for visitors to attend. Attention to hierarchy and use of color were combined to convey meaning.

In this third piece I combined the use of typography and image to create the logo of a fictitious company called the “Orange Otter.” Several sketches of words and symbols led to this final design. The contour of an otter was drawn from a photograph. Both color and elements of an orange were both incorporated to both the main picture as well as the typography. Color has the ability to convey emotion very effectively, but it can also be used to convey function. Green for example was used to convey the idea of fruit and it was succintly matched both in the figure and in typography. The result is a friendly icon that might atract costumers.

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News

May '17 - Roger became a member of Duke's Cancer Institute and the Cancer Control and Population Sciences (CCPS) program.

May '17 - We launched the 'Quit on the Go' Trial to examine novel ways to deliver more effective and wider reaching smoking cessation interventions to individuals with serious mental illness, and registered it at ClinicalTrials.org.

Aug '16 - Short film created by Smashing Ideas describing the background, design and team effort to build the Learn to Quit mobile app.

April '16 - Roger Vilardaga accepted a tenure-eligible Assistant Professor position at the Center for Addiction Science and Technology at Duke University, and an adjunct position at the Duke Global Digital Health Science Center.

April '16 - Chad Otis, Smashing Ideas' Creative Director and Roger Vilardaga were interviewed by Seattle-based King5 News about the development of Learn to Quit.

Mar '16 - FastCompany Magazine, a technology magazine for entrepreneurs and designers, published a magazine article describing the design features of Learn to Quit and how it addressed the special needs of our target population.

March '16 - Learn to Quit featured in Take This, an organization dedicated to inform, educate and reduce stigma on mental health issues.

Jan '16 - Psychiatric News, the official magazine of the American Psychiatric Association published a piece describing our Learn to Quit app.

Dec '15 - We published a new study comparing different components of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy using single case designs and novel analytics in Behaviour Research & Therapy.

Aug '15 - With colleagues from the School of Medicine, we received a $700,000 grant from Pfizer to develop and evaluate an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy mobile tool for patients with chronic pain.

Aug '15 - With colleagues from UW's Engineering and the School of Medicine, we published the first paper outlining a framework for self-experimentation using single case designs and randomization tests at the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

July '15 - Emily Y. Zeng, B.S. in Psychology and Public Health, and Arpita Bhattacharya, doctoral student in Human Centered Design and Engineering (both from the University of Washington), joined our lab this summer.

Talks & Travel

March ’17 – Florence, Italy – Symposium talk titled 'User testing and N-of-1 trials of Learn to Quit, a novel smoking cessation app for chronic mental illness' at the 22nd Annual Convention of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT).

May '16 - San Diego, CA - 2016 Quantified Self Public Health Symposium at the University of California, San Diego.

May '16 – Seattle, WA – Javier Rizo sat on a panel about using technology to advance research at the Networking to Enhance Development (NED) Conference for Research Coordinators, hosted by Seattle's Institute of Translational Health Sciences (ITHS).

March ’16 – Chicago, IL – Javier Rizo presented a poster reporting on the user experience and evaluation of QuitPal in people with serious mental illness at the 21st Annual Convention of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT).

Feb 25th '16 - Durham, NC - Roger Vilardaga gave job talk at the Center for Addiction Science and Technology at Duke University 'A Journey that Must be Walked Together: Leveraging Behavioral Science and Technology to Improve the Health of Those in Most Need.'

Jan 25th '16 - Pittsburgh, PA - Roger Vilardaga gave job talk at the Department of Internal Medicine of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine 'Developing Technologies for Behavioral Change for Under-served Populations.'